TY - CHAP
T1 - Populism from above and below: the path to regression in Brazil
AU - Andrade, Daniela
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Brazil has recently shifted from economic growth to recession, from left-wing to far-right politics and from neo-developmentalist to ultra-liberal economic policies. This regressive change in Brazil (and elsewhere) has prompted the need for empirical investigation and emancipatory movement-building, as urged by the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI). This article responds to the ERPI call by reflecting on the politics of the past. It argues that the road to regression was paved during the tenure of the Workers' Party, when Lula's leadership emerged as representative of interests ‘from below' while advancing a political project that protected and nurtured interests ‘from above’ - a populist ambiguity. By offering an understanding from a class political economy perspective, this article concludes that reinforcing left-wing populism in the face of authoritarianism is unlikely to create a path to emancipation.
AB - Brazil has recently shifted from economic growth to recession, from left-wing to far-right politics and from neo-developmentalist to ultra-liberal economic policies. This regressive change in Brazil (and elsewhere) has prompted the need for empirical investigation and emancipatory movement-building, as urged by the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI). This article responds to the ERPI call by reflecting on the politics of the past. It argues that the road to regression was paved during the tenure of the Workers' Party, when Lula's leadership emerged as representative of interests ‘from below' while advancing a political project that protected and nurtured interests ‘from above’ - a populist ambiguity. By offering an understanding from a class political economy perspective, this article concludes that reinforcing left-wing populism in the face of authoritarianism is unlikely to create a path to emancipation.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Authoritarian-Populism-and-the-Rural-World/Borras-Jr-Edelman-Forero-Hall-Scoones-White-Wolford/p/book/9780367753870
UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003162353/authoritarian-populism-rural-world-ian-scoones-marc-edelman-saturnino-borras-jr-lyda-fernanda-forero-ruth-hall-wendy-wolford-ben-white
UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49632
U2 - 10.4324/9781003162353-15
DO - 10.4324/9781003162353-15
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367753870
SN - 9780367753948
T3 - Critical Agrarian Studies
SP - 338
EP - 364
BT - Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World
A2 - Scoones, Ian
A2 - Edelman, Marc
A2 - Borras, Saturnino M.
A2 - Fernanda Forero, Lyda
A2 - Hall, Ruth
A2 - Wolford, Wendy
A2 - White, Ben
PB - Routledge
ER -